Peter Fisk’s Blog
Beyond Ownership … Exor, the Agnelli family’s portfolio of investments from Fiat to Ferrari, Economist to Louboutin, Philips to Juventus … How holding companies act as ecosystems redefining corporate power
June 9, 2026
Exor … from Fiat’s industrial roots to a platform for influence On the surface, Exor looks like a classic European holding company with deep industrial roots. Its history is inseparable from Fiat, founded in 1899 by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin. For muc …
Xylem … Reinventing the Business of Water … How an industrial spin-off became a $9 billion global water leader … and what its journey teaches us about market making, future brands and solving problems that matter
June 1, 2026
Water might be the world’s most important resource, yet we have traditionally managed it as if it were abundant. Climate change is intensifying drought and flooding. Ageing infrastructure loses enormous quantities of treated water. Growing cities need …
Who owns ideas in the AI age? … Why AI could unlock a golden age for authors, readers and ideas … time for book publishers to embrace change, to embrace AI rather than protest about it, and drive reinvention
May 21, 2026
I have spent more than two decades writing books. From Marketing Genius in 2004, to the award-winning Gamechangers, and most recently Business Recoded, translated into more than 35 languages, books have shaped my career, my thinking, and much of my lif …
知能化されたシステム経済 … Japan’s next wave of innovators … Abeja to Ajinomoto, CarbonX and LayerX, ExaWizards and beyond … the quiet construction of a systems intelligence economy
May 19, 2026
There is a tendency, when talking about innovation, to look for what’s grabbing attention. We look for the visible signals: breakout consumer apps, billion-dollar valuations, charismatic founders on global stages, or sudden technological leaps that app …
Small nations with big impact … How Estonia is rewriting the rules of global innovation, from Bolt’s mobility to Starship’s robots … inspired by small champions like Ireland and Iceland, Singapore to Switzerland
May 19, 2026
This week I’m working with a group of Estonian business leaders. Estonia, and the Baltics more generally, are a great source of entrepreneurial spirit, with small companies thinking well beyond their physical size or geographical domains. Some years ag …
HYBE … Reinventing music around fans … how a small Seoul music company built around BTS became a global entertainment ecosystem
May 18, 2026
The traditional music business has always revolved around the artist: Find talent. Make music. Promote it. Sell recordings. Organise concerts. Repeat. HYBE saw something bigger. What if the real opportunity wasn’t simply producing more successful artis …
Pop Mart … How a small Beijing lifestyle store became a global cultural phenomenon … and what its reinvention teaches us about future brands, market making and the value of what a business could become
May 18, 2026
Pop Mart is easy to misunderstand. At first glance, it is a toy company riding the extraordinary popularity of Labubu, the mischievous character with pointed ears and a toothy grin that has appeared on handbags, social feeds and celebrity collections a …
Trailblazer Leaders … why the future belongs to the people who continuously evolve faster than the world around them … driven by psychology not technology, stepping up to shape the future
May 15, 2026
There are moments in history when leadership itself changes shape. Not gradually, and not in ways that can be neatly captured by new tools or management fashions, but in a deeper shift in what organisations believe they exist to do. We are living throu …
Innovative London … Checkout to Deepmind, Notpla and Nscale, Nothing to Octopus, Olio and Revolut, Tala to Wayve … 10 London-based innovators quietly rebuilding the operating system of the modern economy
May 14, 2026
There are moments when a city stops behaving like a place and starts behaving like a platform. London is in one of those moments. For most of the past two centuries, its identity was relatively stable: global finance in the Square Mile, legal gravity a …
Javier Goyeneche, founder of ECOALF … “I want to be the Ralph Lauren of sustainable fashion” … made with fishing nets, plastic bottles and coffee grinds … the Spanish entrepreneur shares his passion
May 10, 2026
In many ways, Javier Goyeneche represents a new kind of entrepreneur for the 21st century: part fashion visionary, part systems thinker, part environmental activist, and part industrial innovator. While many sustainability pioneers focused on guilt, sa …